Soomra

Soomra was a dynasty that ruled the Sindh region of Pakistan from 1024 to 1351, coming after the Habbari dynasty and before the Samma dynasty. Its name comes from the Sindhi language translation of Samarra, where its founder Khafif of Soomra came from. It was originally a vassal of the Abbasid Caliphate, but outlasted it by a hundred years.

History
The progenitor of Soomra was Khafif, an Ismaili Shi'ite Muslim commander of the Abbasid Caliphate from Samarra, Iraq. Soomra's name comes from his origin of Samarra, corrupted in the Sindhi language. Soomra's capital was Mansurah, now known as Brahmanabad and not far from the city of Hyderabad, Sindh. Soomra's dynasty was given an Arab pedigree, although it was in nature a family of rajputs. It succeeded the Habbari dynasty after its last leader died of natural causes in 1024, following a defeat by Mahmud of Ghazni. The Soomra dynasty was bordered to the north and west by the Ghaznavid Empire and to the east by Daramatia, the Chauhan rajputs, and the Solanki rajputs, while to the south there was the Arabian Sea. For its time, it was one of the farthest-east Muslim states, and was on the border of several Hindu states to the west. In 1351, the Samma rajput tribe gained control of Sindh from the Soomras, and in 1361 Firuz Shah Tughlaq of the Delhi Sultanate subjugated them.